Free College Benefit Analysis

Throughout the twenty-first century many people have come to a concern that the cost of going into a university or a college has become very expensive and would want their government to provide free college tuitions much like the governments in Norway, Sweden, Germany and many other counties in Europe. Furthermore, with the increase in concern of the topic many people have wondered why doesn’t the United States or most importantly all counties provide free college tuition and that is because in order to provide free college there has to be a change in the economic structure. In additionally with the addition of free college there will be more students dropping out of school due to the lack of education due to the fact that colleges aren’t getting …show more content…
Kelly first states, “free college isn’t free, it simply shifts costs from students to taxpayers and caps tuition at zero.”(2), which simply means that tax payers have to pay more taxes in order for the college student to go to school for free. In addition Kelly also states “That tuition cap limits college spending to whatever the public is willing to invest. But it does not change the cost of college, or what institutions actually spend per student” (2). In Kellys’ quote he explains that the tuition cap doesn’t change the cost meaning the cost that a student would originally pay would be the same and colleges would be limited to the amount payed due to the amount of money earned by from the taxes but they also have to pay the original cost of the student’s tuition using the limited amount of money from the tax payers. Using tax money would be a huge disadvantage towards the large universities and also the college due to the limitations that will occur to the colleges such as the limitation of resources such as books, classes, and staff due to budget cuts. Thirdly Kelly states that the free tuition, educational quality, college readiness didn’t change the amount of low graduation rate in students in college “Despite free tuition, just one-third of students from the bottom income quartile who started at a …show more content…
Yes, Germans are more willing to support public higher education than Americans. But that’s not because they’re wildly profligate. It’s also because German universities are more limited in their tasks, and therefore cheaper to run, than their American counterparts. By the way, they don’t offer tenure to most of the faculty either” (Goldman 4-5), this doesn’t mean that Germanys schooling a contain bad practices, it is actually the opposite it is because the Germans are academically prepared which means they know their mapping towards college, and the Germans have mature student. While on the other hand in America it is quite the opposite compared to the Germans government, because in America there is no minimal academic and personal oversight in education meaning that in America the Americans strictly base a person based on the academic and personal oversight which is quite the opposite of Germany. In conclusion there should not be any form of free college due to the amount of effects that can occur, effects such as the limitation of resources that a university will have, resources such as book, faculty, and professors which will cause a great amount of struggle for the university to survive due to the increase in tax payed the universities are limited to what they’re earning from the government which also the university still has to pay for the students courses with no reduction in